scorch
scorch 英 [skɔ:tʃ] 美 [skɔrtʃ]
vt. 烧焦；使枯萎；挖苦 vi. 烧焦；枯萎 n. 烧焦；焦痕
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- To scorch is to burn something fiercely, to the point where its surface — your face, prairie grass, a steak on the grill — chars or otherwise changes color.
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- vt. 烧焦；使枯萎；挖苦
- vi. 烧焦；枯萎
- n. 烧焦；焦痕
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1. Large fires can do more than scorch vegetation and clog the skies with smoke.
大火烧焦了树木，浓烟遮住了天空。
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2. Upon the Negroes refusing to take sustenance, I have seen coals of fire, glowing hot, put on a shovel and placed so near their lips as to scorch and burn them.
我见过有人在黑奴们拒绝吃东西的时候把一锹烧的火红火红的煤炭靠近到他们嘴唇，近到快要把他们的嘴唇烧焦的程度。
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3. Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter (LRO) has taken new photographs of the surface that clearly show astronaut footprints, the lunar rover and spacecraft scorch marks.
美国宇航局的侦察卫星最新拍到的月球表面的照片已经非常清晰的显示了宇航员的足印，登月车以及航天飞船烧焦的痕迹。
- scorch (v.) "to burn superficially or slightly, but so as to change the color or injure the texture," early 14c., perhaps an alteration of scorrcnenn "make dry, parch" (c. 1200), of obscure origin, perhaps from Old Norse skorpna "to be shriveled," cognate with Old English scrimman "to shrink, dry up." Or perhaps from Old French escorchier "to strip off the skin," from Vulgar Latin excorticare "to flay," from ex- (see ex-) + Latin cortex (genitive corticis) "cork;" but OED finds this not likely. Scorched earth military strategy is 1937, translation of Chinese jiaotu, used against the Japanese in a bid to stem their advance into China.
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